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Missouri teens want to lower the voting age to 16 in local and school elections
(news.stlpublicradio.org)
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I am so happy to find people like you here in fediverse. (I'm viewing this from kbin; not sure where you are; doesn't matter! Here we are. It's great.) I've been absolutely crucified on Reddit for posting pro-youth sentiments. It feels like most of society treats young people like dangerous aliens or something. So to find a friendly voice so quickly is really uplifting.
Some of it is distrust of young people. Some of it is a slavish devotion to “the rules” or “the way ~~it’s always been~~ I’ve always known it to be”.
I don’t get the former, and I’m doing my best to never settle for “the rules” as an answer without those rules being grounded and justifiable.